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Brad

Fast service
What I find interesting about Hostkey is that the infrastructure can be built around high availability rather than a single powerful server. For business applications this is often more important than adding another CPU or more RAM to one machine. Hostkey supports architectures with redundant servers, automatic failover, load balancing and geographic redundancy between data centers. A typical setup can use two application servers behind a load balancer with a separate database layer and a standby node. If the primary server fails, traffic can be redirected to another machine automatically. Hostkey describes its high availability infrastructure as supporting continuous monitoring, failover and distribution of requests across several servers. Geo redundancy is another useful option. Hostkey operates infrastructure in several European locations as well as the USA and Turkey. For a critical web application it is possible to design the service so that a problem in one data center does not automatically make the whole project unavailable. Server management is reasonably flexible from a technical perspective. The Hostkey Invapi panel can control power, network interfaces, IP addresses and DNS records. It also provides traffic statistics, hardware monitoring, SSH key configuration, operating system installation and access through IPMI or DRAC for supported dedicated servers. There is also an API for integrating rented infrastructure into an internal management or billing system.

Services Period: Active customer at the time of review. Customer since August, 2024

Tailer

Good VPS
Hostkey currently provides Portainer Community Edition and allows it to be deployed on both VPS and dedicated servers. Standard provisioning is described as taking about 15 minutes. The same environment can therefore be used for development, staging, internal services and production workloads with different hardware requirements. For container hosting I would pay particular attention to RAM and storage latency. Several containers can consume memory very quickly when databases, application services and monitoring agents run on the same node. Fast NVMe storage is also important for persistent volumes, container logs and workloads with frequent small writes. Hostkey offers Docker servers with SSD or NVMe storage and configurations ranging from small VPS instances to dedicated Ryzen and EPYC systems.

Services Period: Active customer at the time of review. Customer since October, 2024

Roman

Good soft
Hostkey looks particularly interesting when the workload depends heavily on CPU performance rather than just the number of available cores. For applications with many short calculations, game servers, build systems and some database workloads, high single core performance can make a noticeable difference. Hostkey currently offers dedicated servers with AMD Ryzen 7950X and 9950X processors as well as AMD EPYC platforms. The Ryzen 9950X has 16 cores and 32 threads and can reach frequencies up to 5.7 GHz. This makes it a strong option for workloads where individual thread performance matters. What I find useful is that Hostkey also publishes its own comparison between Ryzen 9950X and EPYC 9354 under sustained load. Ryzen keeps a much higher clock frequency, while EPYC shows much lower thermal throttling during a thirty minute full CPU test. That gives a more realistic picture than looking only at boost frequency on the specification sheet.

Services Period: Active customer at the time of review. Customer since March, 2024

Xandr

Good for e-commerce
Dedicated servers can use 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps network connections. This gives enough bandwidth for large data transfers, backups, media services and communication between infrastructure nodes. For projects with substantial traffic I would always check the included traffic allowance as well as the port speed. Another technical feature worth mentioning is BYOIP. Hostkey can announce customer IPv4 ranges through its own autonomous system or through the customer autonomous system using BGP. This can be useful when migrating infrastructure without changing existing public addresses. The networking options also include private networks and VLAN configurations. This makes it possible to keep database traffic and internal services separate from public interfaces instead of exposing every component directly to the internet.

Services Period: Active customer at the time of review. Customer since March, 2025

Adam

Useful service
I chose Hostkey for an application that communicates with payment services, external APIs and several customer networks. For this project, network configuration was just as important as processor speed and disk performance. The Hostkey server provides full root access, so I can manage routing rules, firewall policies, VPN connections and service ports without the restrictions found in shared hosting. I installed Linux, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Redis and Docker, then configured monitoring for latency, packet loss and external availability. One useful Hostkey feature is direct control over PTR records. Reverse DNS can be managed through the control panel and API. This is important for mail services, monitoring systems and applications where correct forward and reverse DNS configuration affects trust and compatibility.

Services Period: Active customer at the time of review. Customer since February, 2025

Alex

Rich configuration
Hostkey offers a VPS service that is well suited to users who need precise control over infrastructure rather than a simplified hosting package. The available configurations combine modern processors with SSD or NVMe storage, full root access and network connectivity up to 1 Gbps. Linux and Windows are supported, so the platform can accommodate different application stacks and administration requirements. I appreciate the clear distinction between VPS plans with shared processor resources and VDS plans with dedicated virtual processor cores. Shared resources help reduce costs for moderate workloads, while dedicated cores provide more consistent performance for databases, business applications and services with continuous processor demand. This makes it easier to select an appropriate configuration without paying for unnecessary capacity.

Services Period: Active customer at the time of review. Customer since March, 2023

Zen

Hostkey also provides useful capabilities for automated infrastructure management
Hostkey also provides useful capabilities for automated infrastructure management. Servers can be controlled through an API and connected with tools such as Ansible and Terraform. This is valuable for repeatable deployment, configuration management and environments where several virtual machines need to be administered consistently. The network configuration includes connectivity up to 1 Gbps together with IPv4 and IPv6 support. Hourly billing is available for temporary workloads, and some VPS resources can be increased without restarting the virtual machine or losing stored data. These features help reduce unnecessary expenses while allowing the server to grow with the workload.

Services Period: Active customer at the time of review. Customer since November, 2014

Robert

Good for website
Our company chose a VPS from Hostkey for a website where customers can create accounts, upload documents and track their requests. Shared hosting was no longer suitable because background tasks often slowed down the main pages and users sometimes had to wait for information to update. After moving the project, the website became much more responsive. File processing now runs separately, account pages open quickly and scheduled tasks complete without affecting visitors. We also installed the software versions required by our developers and configured regular backups. The main advantage of a Hostkey VPS is the level of control it provides. Resources can be selected according to the actual needs of the website and increased later as traffic grows. It is a practical option for business websites that need stable performance, flexible settings and more freedom than standard shared hosting can offer.

Services Period: Active customer at the time of review. Customer since November, 2025

Mikle

Hostkey VPS suits projects that depend on custom processing
We chose a Hostkey VPS for a family history website where members build private family trees, upload scanned records and import large GEDCOM files. The project is unusual because a single import can create thousands of people and relationships. On ordinary hosting, these jobs sometimes occupied all available resources and made editing difficult for everyone else. With the VPS, we placed imports and duplicate checks in a separate processing queue. Visitors can continue browsing and adding records while larger files are handled in the background. We also keep the database, search index and image storage organised independently, which makes maintenance easier and reduces the chance that one task will affect the whole site. What I value most is the ability to shape the server around this specific workflow. We can control memory limits, schedule backups before major data migrations and test database changes on a separate copy of the site. When the number of family trees increases, additional resources can be assigned without moving the archive elsewhere. Hostkey VPS suits projects that depend on custom processing and a carefully structured database rather than a simple collection of web pages.

Services Period: Active customer at the time of review. Customer since November, 2024

Kilian

VPS provides full control over the server
We rented a VPS from Hostkey for an amateur sports league website. The platform publishes match schedules, results, team rankings and tournament photos. On shared hosting, the website became noticeably slower after games when many participants checked the results and uploaded new content at the same time. After the migration, we configured the database, image processing and automatic table updates as separate services. New results now appear quickly, while uploading photos does not affect the other sections. We also created a test copy of the website where changes can be checked before the start of each season. The Hostkey VPS provides full control over the server environment. We can install the required software, configure backups and allocate resources between different processes. The server configuration can be expanded as new teams join the league. For a website with frequent updates and uneven visitor activity, this solution has worked much better than ordinary shared hosting.

Services Period: Active customer at the time of review. Customer since January, 2025

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